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48Clinical applications of counterfactual thinking during memory reactivationBehavioral and Brain Sciences 38. 2015.
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37The origins of meaning: Language in the light of evolutionPhilosophical Psychology 22 (4). 2009.
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688If You Like It, Does It Matter if It’s Real?Philosophical Psychology 23 (1): 43-57. 2010.Most people's intuitive reaction after considering Nozick's experience machine thought-experiment seems to be just like his: we feel very little inclination to plug in to a virtual reality machine capable of providing us with pleasurable experiences. Many philosophers take this empirical fact as sufficient reason to believe that, more than pleasurable experiences, people care about “living in contact with reality.” Such claim, however, assumes that people's reaction to the experience machine tho…Read more
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2073Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal?Mind and Language 25 (3): 346-358. 2010.Recent experimental research has revealed surprising patterns in people's intuitions about free will and moral responsibility. One limitation of this research, however, is that it has been conducted exclusively on people from Western cultures. The present paper extends previous research by presenting a cross-cultural study examining intuitions about free will and moral responsibility in subjects from the United States, Hong Kong, India and Colombia. The results revealed a striking degree of cros…Read more
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7Self-Stultification ObjectionJournal of Consciousness Studies 21 (5-6): 120-130. 2014.Epiphenomenalism holds that mental events are caused by physical events while not causing any physical effects whatsoever. The self-stultification objection is a venerable argument against epiphenomenalism according to which, if epiphenomenalism were true, we would not have knowledge of our own sensations. For the past three decades, W.S. Robinson has called into question the soundness of this objection, offering several arguments against it. Many of his arguments attempt to shift the burden of …Read more
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19Exploring the experience of episodic past, future, and counterfactual thinking in younger and older adults: A study of a Colombian sampleConsciousness and Cognition 51 258-267. 2017.
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24Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging changes during relational retrieval in normal aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairmentJournal of the International Neuropsychological Society 18 886-897. 2012.
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29Prinz, Jesse J. Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 358 p.(2002)[2004] (review)Ideas Y Valores 56 (133): 163-168. 2007.
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296Attention and consciousnessWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews 1 (1): 51-59. 2010.For the past three decades there has been a substantial amount of scientific evidence supporting the view that attention is necessary and sufficient for perceptual representations to become conscious (i.e., for there to be something that it is like to experience a representational perceptual state). This view, however, has been recently questioned on the basis of some alleged counterevidence. In this paper we survey some of the most important recent findings. In doing so, we have two primary goa…Read more
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